what a morning it has been. >> it has. >> thank you so much for joining us for this special coverage of the pope's inauguration. that is all for "early start." i'm john berman. >> and i'm zoraida sambolin. "starting point" starts right now. welcome, everybody. our "starting point" this morning a dramatic moment. pope francis truly will be a man of the people, entering in an uncovered pope mobile and going into the crowd to kiss babies and the sick. his message to the world straight ahead this morning. plus the winter that won't go away. the northeast blasted with snow and sleet and high winds. developing right now, an

explosion at an army depot during a training exercise, and there are injuries. we'll have the latest. plus, new information on that planned attack at a college campus. details on the backpack full of bombs found in a dorm room. >> and a global sell-off in markets, and a vote today to bail out yet another european country. is this the reason in this country investors were looking to sell? it's tuesday, march 19th, and "starting point" begins right now. our "starting point" this morning, thousands of worshippers in st. peter's square praying for and with pope francis during his historic inaugural mass. as the pope entered without the traditional butateproof glass roof of the pope mobile. ushering a new era for the catholic church that has been embroiled in some scandals.

chris cuomo kicks off our special liver coverage this morning. it was an emotional mass. but i thought the entrance was one of the most remarkable and most moving entrances ever. >> you got to see a nice contrast between what pe francis wants and the typical modus operandi for the vatican. he wanted to be open. he wanted to hold babies, kiss the sick, let people see that he was accessible to them. that's been important from the first words he spoke to us. at the same time he really only had about a couple of dozen security officers with him. as anybody who's ever covered the president, that is just a fraction of what you'd usually half walking amidst a crowd of 150,000 people. the significance of the inauguration today was really twofold. while pope francis became pope the moment he said that i accept this after the conclave voted him in, he did have to get his pallium, his ring, those things are very important. the fisherman's ring of the pope. we watched that today. the pallium, the shawl kind of

vestment that he's wearing. the same as pope benedict. is there a message in that that he wanted to keep consistency with it? that he didn't want to create something new and fancy for himself? and also the big deal was his message today. what was his message going to be to people? the beautiful coincidence of this happening on the feast of saint joseph. joseph such a central figure in the catholic church, certainly in italy, but also as the father protect protector. that was exactly the pope's message, that we must be protectors of the weak, and the poor, and the environment, in all of god's creatures underneath it. we have an excerpt from the homily that pope francis gave. take a listen. >> let us protect christ in our life in order to protect others in order to protect creation. the vocation of protecting does not regard just us christians.

it has a dimension that proceeds and that is simply human. it regards everyone. it is protecting the entire creati creation, the beauty of creation. as the book of genesis tells us. >> father edward beck, cnn describe outer, good to have you, as always. that message, simple, simply human, we have to take care of everybody, what do you think it means to those leaders from 132 different delegations? >> we can't help but hear that in reference to sexual abuse scandal, i don't think, especially from an american context. all of those leaders there know the problems the catholic church has had. and how many times did he say, protector, protector, protector. he said at one point protector of children. and so that certainly is going

to be a message coming out of this. the sex abuse scandal, and his protecting of it. also, ecology was an issue. protecting creation, which is going to be continuation of what benedict had talked about. thou shalt not pollute is one of benedict's new commandments, when he revised more than ten commandments. the third thing that was significant was the use of what he said power was. he said, let us never forget that authentic power is service. service of the poor and the vulnerable. he's saying the papacy isn't about all the trappings, the power is really for the sake of something else, for service. i thought that was really significant. >> we're going to have an opportunity to walk through more of this homily which is a remarkable homily. let's get a little more information about the installation. cast a historic and all but unprecedented transfer of leadership in the catholic church. jim bittermann is in rome for us. jim, good morning. >> good morning, soledad. the fact is it was a rather

unprecedented, it doesn't happen that often that we change popes. this pope, reusing the pope mobile that john paul ii had so much trouble. without any kind of bulletproof protection around it. he circulated around the crowd. it was one of these moments back in the early '80s that john paul ii -- came out of the crowd with a pistol. obviously pope francis does not feel there's anything to be afraid of. and he talked about protection in his homily. the fact is that, in the well tour through st. peter's this morning as he was driving around in the pope mobile, he did exactly visually what he was later to speak about in the homi homily. that is to say to protect the children, to protect the weak, and at one point he kissed babies that were in the crowd, and then at another point he

reached out out of the pope mobile, came down and actually comforted a sick man who was in the crowd. it was a visual representation by accident or design of exactly what his message was this morning. >> jim bittermann for us this morning. thanks, jim. want to get right to our cnn contributor father edward beck who's been with us for quite a bit over the last couple weeks. and mon seer yore richard hilgartner. from rome we're joined by john allen, cnn senior vatican analyst, correspondent for the national catholic reporter. welcome. nice to have you with us. john allen i'm going to start with you. you heard jim bittermann talk about the visual representation of what he really presented in the homily, which was the wading in and being the protector. i have to imagine that there's a number of security people who were terrified by that moment. it might i have to say my heart leapt i have not seen a pope without the pope mobile in, in decades. how, is that going to be a sort of, of tension between what the

security forces deem as necessary, and, and what the pope clearly is, is very intrinsic to how he sees the, the role of himself as a shepherd of his people? >> oh, absolutely, soledad. i mean we were talking earlier this morning that the world may be charmed by pope francis so far, but his security detail, not so much. i mean, you know, one of them was quoted in the italian papers this week as saying that if things don't get back to normal around here pretty quickly this guy's going to drive us all nuts because they're scrambling to sort of keep up with him. clearly this is a pope who does not want to be placed inside a bubble and sort of separated from people, who wants to be accessible to them. there's going to have to be a sort of period of adjustment for the security forces, figuring out how to allow him to do that. and at the same time, keep him safe. i mean you mentioned on air this morning, pope john paul ii used to move around st. peter's square in that open-air, but it was discontinued because of the assassination attempt on may

13th, 1981, the pope mobile was the response to that tragic event to try to allow the pope to be accessible to the crowd and stay safer. there's going to have to be some adjustment here. clearly what pope francis is doing is trying to set a ton. that's what this whole week has been about from wednesday when he stepped out on that balcony over st. peter's square, through this morning, has been the beginning of his papacy. it's been him introducing himself to the world, and trying to strike a tone of a humbler, simpler style of leadership, closer to the people. today, soledad, wases end of the beginning, and tomorrow, the hard work of actually governing this church begins. it's the transition from style to substance. that's going to be the story going forward. >> hmm, interesting. all right, let's talk about going forward a little bit as we enter what is the most holy kind of year in the catholic church, the season of easter. outside of the pomp and circumstance, as we head into this time, what happens with what the pope does next?

>> well, obviously the preparations now for holy week, he's learning to do what he's been doing as a priest for many years. he was or tained a priest in 1969, so celebrating mass for holy week is not new to him. celebrating it as pope is huge. i'm sure there's a lot of last-minute preparations as all of his assistants who coordinate those things are trying to learn his preferences. and we're seeing a lot of those kinds of things. we talked earlier about the fact that his -- his worth has been rather general and painting with broad brush strokes. so we're right now reading symbols. we're looking at his vesture and the things he's choosing to do. >> what that could mean. >> holy week will be filled with those opportunities. >> more opportunities for us. i like that. one of the things that, and i think it was a theme in the homily, really talking about the idea of accepting people when you don't quite understand. and when i look at that and think about the polls that when they poll, i think this is a

cnn/orc poll of, of catholics only, overwhelmingly high approval numbers for, for the new pope. 88% of people polled said they approve. but then when you ask them about sort of the drill down into the issues of should the pope allow birth control, yes, 76%. et cetera, et cetera, it rathers on like that. i think that one has to imagine there's not -- he's not going to usher in a -- a big era of change within the catholic church. >> let's say that he could. there's nothing to say that he can't. remember, birth control in 1969, a lay committee there said the church should change its position. that was the recommendation. now it did not happen. but that's up for discussion. married priesthood for the first 1,000 years of the church we had married priests. we currently have anglican priests coming from the anglican communion serving as roman catholic priests, married with children. there's a precedent for it. if he wants to have the discussion, he can have the

discussion. >> you hear him in anything, again we're watching all these little moments, do you hear anything he's saying where he'd be open to that? >> i do because he say how he pastored in argentina. he was a pastoral man, even with same-sex marriage, he said something in argentina that perhaps civil unions would be something we should consider, so that same-sex marriage wouldn't happen. so it's, again, kind of like a fall. but for him to even say that that is revolutionary. >> it's going to be fascinating to watch exactly. we're going to stick around and continue to talk about this and walk through the homily a little bit more as we continue through the morning. already there's been a, a new tweet from pope francis. got to love that early on tweeting. here's what he wrote. let us keep a place for christ in our lives. let us care for one anothers. let us be loving custodians of creation. with that we get to john berman. spring officially starts tomorrow, but spring apparently did not get that memo. much of the country is in the midst of some sort of messy winter weather this morning. parts of the upper midwest saw

blizzard-like conditions overnight. blowing snow forced the closure of several roads and highways in north dakota and minnesota. new york city saw snow before it turned into rain monday evening, caused delays of more than an hour at all major new york city airports. boston is bracing for six inches of snow today, prompting all public schools to close. more than a foot of snow is expected in the new england mountains. good for skiers, i suppose. alison kosik is live in concord, new hampshire, where they could get a foot and a half of snow. alison, you still think it's pretty out there this morning? >> i still think it's pretty. come on, look at this. this is the state house. can you get more picturesque than that? i want to put that on a postcard. if you're going to get a late winter storm with spring literally tomorrow it should be snow like this. this is the kind of snow that's great when you want to go skiing because the ski resorts they're really enjoying this. now as far as what's expected today, accumulations up to a foot, maybe more by midnight. so expect to see about an inch

of snow accumulations per hour today. but you know, new hampshire has had it pretty easy the past couple of winters. this winter, though, it's been a little bit more difficult. and after the 72 inches have fallen for the wintertime, compared to 55 inches last year. so yeah, they are getting hit lately with a sort of one-two punch of many storms all at once. plows are ready. this is easy for them. they've got it down to a science in concord. >> alison kosik, excellent producing having the plow go right behind you dug our live. our thanks to you. the south also has had its fair share of wild winter weather as well. look at this, that's hail in parts of mississippi and georgia along with heavy rain and thunderstorms. look at that come down. this was the scene in tennessee monday after a tornado touched down, about 40 miles west of nashville. want to go right now to jennifer delgado live in the severe weather center. good morning, jennifer. >> good morning, john. you saw that video coming out of tennessee. we did have a report of an ef-1

tornado that hit just to the west of nashville. now we are still tracking some stronger storms out there. right now affecting parts of florida, jacksonville, as well as into miami. but we're still talking about more snow. we saw allison reporting live in concord and guess what? more of that snow on the way. we are going to see potentially a foot or more of that. want to point out to you for areas including hartford we have that wintry mix from boston, we're talking a little bit more snow, and then sleet mixing in. that is going to lead to messy travel on the roadways. so be careful out there. here's a look at some of the totals that we're talking about. 12 to 18 inches. burlington, anywhere between about 5 to 8, and of course new york city, you started off with the rain but it's going to be quickly coming to an end right around 1:00. it's going to be very windy out there. that means a lot of delays for those airports, look at some of these snow totals. talking some locations, seven inches of snow. spring starts tomorrow and that storm will be out of here just in time.

7:02 if you're counting down. >> keep telling us. >> i will bring it tomorrow. >> all right. jennifer delgado. thanks to you. 14 minutes after the hour. a developing story from nevada this morning. there was an explosion a few hours ago at the hawthorne army depot. a spokesman said it occurred during a marine corps training exercise. no word yet on the cause but a base official says a traffic accident was somehow involved. there are some injuries but we don't know how many. four medical helicopters were sent to the scene. the spokesman says the blast did not happen near any locations where ammunition is stored. president obama leaves tonight on the first overseas trip of his second term. he's heading to the middle east for meetings in israel, the west bank and jordan as well. israel is the first leg of his trip and it's the first time the president is visiting israel since he took office. one of the key topics of the discussion was israeli leaders how to contain iran's growing nuclear program. that trip again starts tonight. soledad? >> all right. well let's take a look now if we can i think we've been watching the pope as he's been doing these individual greetings of

many of the the honored guests who have come and the heads of state who have come to, to pay homage to him. we are expecting to see the lead of the u.s. delegation, the vice president joe biden, a catholic, and his first catholic to serve as vice president we're expecting to see him in just a moment, have his opportunity to, to greet the, the pope. >> vice president joe biden, the great american political improviser and pope francis known as an improviser himself. >> i hope we're really rolling on that. you never know what's going to happen. i know he's traveling with nancy pelosi as part of his delegation, as well, and the president of georgetown university. must be a remarkable opportunity to have a chance to be not just part of history but to, to have a moment with the pope, especially a pope who seems like he's spending so much time with each honored guess and not only the honored guests, you see the time he's spending with the random people in the crowd, kissing the babies. >> let's point out the jesuits,

too, because he said the president of georgetown university, a jesuit university, the general of the jesuit community was there at the mass this morning. so this is a real proud moment for the jesuits, who have never had a pope before. here he is. >> and that, of course, is the vice president joe biten. joe biden the first catholic to serve as vp. he is the lead of the delegation representing the united states at this installation mass. you know, and he's gone back and forth a little bit with his own bishop, partly as -- at the father beck's -- grimacing a little bit on some of the vice president's stances. you saw him pass through and take just a moment with the new pope. following the installation mass there are well over a, a, 130 dignitaries who have come to pay homage to the pope after his installation mass, and he's spent some time with each one. we've got to take a short break. coming up a back pack filled with homemade bombs you'll remember this story was breaking on our air yesterday morning. multiple firearms, hundreds of

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police at the university of central florida say a campus massacre may have been avoided when a suspected gunman apparently took his own life along with the body of 30-year-old james oliver seevakumaran officials found plans for an attack homemade bombs handgun assault weapons plenty of ammunition. ed lavandera is live in orlando for more on this investigation this morning. ed, good morning. >> good morning, soledad. the building has been reopened. students are allowed, once again to come and go. but the suspect who is now dead has been described by university officials and police here as someone who was a loner, and someone who often showed signs

of anti-social behavior. investigators are now trying to figure out what made him tinge. when the fire alarm sounded inside this dormitory tower on the university of central florida campus all of the students scrambled to get out. all, except james oliver seevakumaran. >> they found the subject dead from a single gunshot wound to the head. >> reporter: the 30-year-old former student killed himself, but what investigators say they discovered next were the workings of a sinister and deadly plan to commit mass murder. four homemade bombs in a backpack, multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. >> it could have been a very bad day for everybody here. all things considered i think we were blessed at the university of central florida. >> investigators say they don't what made seevakumaran turn his gun on himself instead. police believe he pulled the fire alarm himself to lure unsuspecting students out into the open of the dorm hallways. he pointed a gun at one of his roommates but police say that

student barricaded himself in a bathroom and called 911. the suspect then killed himself. students in the dorm were left shaken. >> it started off as a fire alarm and nobody said that something else was going on with a bomb and the shooting. so we were left in the dark. >> i just never thought this was going to happen. so it's really horrible that someone had to die. >> investigators also say they found writings laying out a time line of what seevakumaran planned to do. a plan investigators say was designed to, quote, give them hell. we don't know who he planned to target, but investigators say he was acting as a lone wolf. >> he did not have a lot of friends. one of those people that really and truly flies under the radar, and had some anger issues. he was just truly one of those that are out there, and he made up his mind and set a time line and put a plan into place. >> now, soledad, seevakumaran

was actually enrolled as a business student here at the university of central florida through the end of the fall semester, which ended in december. university officials say he was not enrolled for the spring semester and the university officials had been in the process of trying to remove him from the dorm that you see behind me. soledad? >> ed lavandera for us. ed, thank you. a small country having a very big impact on markets around the globe. will bailing out cyprus cause continued panic? christine romans has our update up next. come on, nowadays lots of people go by themselves.

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morning. on wall street all about europe again. stock futures indicate a lower open as we watch to see if cyprus approves its bailout plan today. will be the fourth bailout in europe. banks there are closed at least until thursday to give parliament time to work out the details. it will be the fourth european country to get a bailout. very controversial because it includes a tax on bank accounts. over the weekend, nervous cypriots ran to the atms to with draw large sums. lawmakers holding a hearing today in the u.s. on the us airways/american merger. a senate judiciary committee looking into the impact the deal might have on competition. the ceos of both airlines will appear. many analysts don't expect ticket prizes to rise, because there isn't much overlap between usair and american. still airline mergers are often heated and messy. complaints about lost bags, screwed up reservations, delayed flights typically soar after two airlines combine their reservation systems. we'll continue to watch the big airline merger. >> always has the potential to be a hot mess.

>> yeah. >> take a look live at the vatican. the pope now greeting the leaders from around the world. we'll tell you what he says in his next -- before his inaugural mass this morning. take you back live to rome coming up next. and then today marks ten years since the invasion of iraq. coming up john's powerful conversation with american -- to run the country after saddam hussein fled.

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welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point." we introduced you to father edward beck a few minutes ago. plus he's been around with us all last week. this morning, chris john farley. nice to have you with us. >> thanks, soledad. >> "starting point" this morning we're looking at pope francis. he's been meeting with dignitaries from around the world after he was inaugurated in a vatican ceremony that was beautiful and steeped in tradition. vice president biden leading the american delegation in rome shook the pope's hand just a few minutes ago. want to get to the step putty spokesman for the vatican. nice to have you with us. >> thank you, it's good to be with you. >> i appreciate that, sir. give me some of the highlights of the, not just the, the homily, but the entire mass for you. what did you find most remarkable, and what we had an opportunity to see? >> well, we were surprised

because when the pope went through the crowd of about 200,000 people they're telling us, he stopped the pope mobile, he got out and he went to embrace a sick person. and he's given us all kinds of indications, since he began his work last wednesday night, that this is not going to be an ordinary pope. this is somebody who wants to be very close to the people. and the clear joy of the people in the square spilled out all the way down, there's something new, of course right now. and of course the liturgy, already he's given us some indications of his style of liturgy. very simple. very sober. but also very much direct to people's hearts and minds. and the homily, of course, was very beautiful. >> his sister maria bergoglio did an interview with cnn espanol yesterday and one of the things, very funny, she was revealing what he had told her 0 to sort of pass on to the rest of the family. she said that he said this, i cannot call everyone. we are very big family, so

please send them my love. because if i call everyone it will empty the vatican coffers, and i thought that was both an indication of his sense of humor, but also i think reiterating, and underscoring, what you've said about his sense of, of simplicity, and, and, and i guess also the idea that, he's going to be a different kind of pope than what we have seen in the past. >> you know, he's certainly drawing from the strength of his pred scissors. when i saw him appear on the balcony last week the first thing that flashed through my mind is this is john xxiii or this is john paul i in the smile. this is boldness and courage of john paul ii. this is the depth of pope benedict. cardinal bergoglio brings to the office now as pope francis his own gift. and one of those great gifts has been his simple way of living in buenos aires. his closeness to the poor. he's not afraid to be near

people. and so important. the themes of love and kindness and gentleness into the homily. the whole thing of taking care of creation. he talked about the herods out there like king herod who come to destroy joy and take us away from things we're supposed to be doing. this is somebody who's speaking directly to people's hearts. i know being here for the past month, especially the past week, people are blown away by what they see. they haven't seen this for a long time. >> thomas father rosica, vatican spokesperson, thank you for talking with us. and thank you for bearing with those alarms, and the, the sirens going on behind you we appreciate that as well. let's get right to john berman. >> thanks, soledad. syrian rebels have picked a syrian born american, american citizen as their provisional prime minister. the main opposition coalition elected 50-year-old hassan itu

to lead a syrian government. making sure aid gets inside syria and offering an alternative to the government of president bashar al assad. the former university of oklahoma quarterback is among two people killed when a corporate jet crashed into a row of homes in indiana on sunday. 60-year-old steven davis died in the crash. also killed in the crash 5-year-old wesley caves from tulsa. setbacks for the defense in the jodi arias murder trial. a key defense witness, psychologist richard samuels already testified that arias suffers from acute distress disorder which develops into post traumatic stress disorder. samuels on the stand yesterday admitting he should have re-examined arias after she admitted lying about who killed her boyfriend travis alexander. >> you just said knowing that this was a lie, you used it and then concluded that those

confirm the presence of ptsd even though you just now told us that this is based on a lie. >> perhaps i should have re-admitted the test. >> wow. at the time samuel tested arias in january of 2010 she was claiming two unknown intruders had killed alexander. so on this tenth anniversary of the u.s. invasion, deadly proof that iraq is still at war with itself. nearly 50 people have been killed and scores more wounded in an outbreak of bombings and shootings. most of the attacks have been in baghdad and shiite areas. this really is such a fragile democracy at this point. and i talked about this with paul bremer. he was the american civilian tapped to run iraq in the early 2003. ambassador bremer vividly remembers the day he arrived there. the invasion was over, but the trouble was just beginning. >> it was chaotic. i remember looking down from the c-130 as we prepared to land in baghdad airport, and the city

was on fire. we could see buildings on fire all throughout the ground below us, as we drove into town, we could see looters out in the streets. >> in retrospect, given the scope and size of the issues that we faced so quickly, did we know what we were getting into? >> i'm a civilian side, you can argue that the civilian plans were written on a bunch of assumptions that turned out not to be true. they thought that there was the same kind of post-war situation there had been in 1991. it didn't turn out right. so the civilian plans were sort of based on the wrong assumptions. military plans were based on the idea that we could get in and get out quickly. and indeed it was unrealistic. so did we, did we prepare correctly for the post-war? no. we didn't. >> biggest regret? >> i think the biggest regret i have is that we did not do security right from the beginning.

discouraged, i think the iraqi people that while they're being occupied, they're not being occupied by a government that is willing to provide them security. >> so biggest accomplishment in the ten years? >> the biggest accomplishment was the iraqi constitution. it is the most progressive constitution anywhere in the arab world. we've seen the problems that are going on still today in egypt to get a reasonable constitution. the iraqi constitution is much more liberal. that's important. because it does give them a structure from which they can -- they choose to do it, preserve a real representative government. >> looking back ten years now, given the chaos, given the loss of life, given the struggles, given the fact there were no weapons of mass destruction found, was it worth it? >> yes, i think it was. i think the -- despite huge sacrifice the american people and the iraqi people have made, the iraqi people are

unquestionably living in a freer, more open, and much more productive country than they were in ten years ago. you know, the thing that people really forget when they think about iraq is how brutal saddam's dictatorship was. this was probably the most brutal dictatorship anywhere on the face of the earth in 2003. he was an absolute tyrant. no other word for it. >> there's still sectarian violence or bombings almost every week right now. amnesty international says there are human rights violations regularly, there are still problems. >> if the question really is where does iraq come out in the broad scale of things, i think itself it's going to turn out okay. but, there are real problems now. al maliki, the program, has certainly slid back on some of the democratic institutions that we helped them create ten years ago. and that is not good. that needs to be reversed. >> have you been back? >> no. >> have you ever go back? >> i would like to go back.

but there are some security problems there. i still have a price on my head from al qaeda so i'm not sure it would be wise. certainly my wife doesn't think it would be very wise. >> now, ambassador bremer was famous for those boots that he wore with his business suit when he was in iraq for a year. he said he still actually has the boots in a closet. his wife only lets him bring them out once a year for a sort of reunion. >> he says that, you know, from the perspective of the iraqis, and it would be interesting to hear from the iraqis as well -- >> -- they have very complicated feelings about this. almost every iraqi you talk to will say that they resent the security situation. they're very grateful that the u.s. got rid of saddam hussein, but they hate the occupation and there's a lot that is still unsettled in their country. >> -- for the united states i guess is the question? >> was it worth it for the united states? that is a very good question. he didn't seem to answer that directly. >> interesting. you counsel a lot of people who are iraq vets? >> i haven't seen a lot.

but i have a few, post traumatic syndrome. >> is there a sense that the sacrifice for them, and i suppose those who have ptsd -- do they feel like it was something they were proud to be part of or do they look back and think, ten years later, what was done? >> -- spoken to me and they were disappointed. they feel as though a lot of it was for naught and they wonder about their investment and time and their lot. >> a key question also is why were the assumptions wrong? the assumptions on the military side, on the civilian side. we acknowledge there were mistakes made but why were those mistakes made and that's something people need to examine. >> key questions could fill a back amazing. we have not had any official government budget since 2009. the battle to get one past the house and the senate will be on and the real fight could be on how to avoid a government shutdown that will happen next week a ranking member of the budget committee is going to be our guest up next. ss deals to book this fabulous hotel. well, you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it. and i got a great deal without bidding.

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this morning in washington, d.c., it's a battle of words. the house and the senate are expected to vote on budget proposals today. this is washington, d.c., over the republican party's so-called autopsy report why they lost the election in 2012. let's get to chris van hollen. nice to have you with us. appreciate it. >> good morning, soledad. >> you and your democratic colleagues in the house have introduced your own budget and i want to walk through some of the features of that budget if i may up on the screen. 200 billion dollars in defense cuts. 141 billion in savings from medicare. 1.2 trillion in new tax revenue over ten years. 200 billion in job creation packages, and turns off those forced spending cuts. so i guess i want you to give me the map on one part of that,

that 1.2 trillion in new tax revenue over ten years. where exactly does that come from? >> that comes from the elimination of tax loopholes and tax expenditures for very wealthy people. you recall during the last presidential election, mitt romney and paul ryan both told us that there were trillions of dollars of tax breaks for very wealthy people, they proposed to eliminate them as part of tax reform where they reduced the rate. we say, let's take some of that revenue to help reduce the deficit, combined with other targeted cuts. >> be more specific for me. when you talk about tax loopholes and the very wealthy. which specific loopholes and what is very wealthy? >> sure, sure, these are, when you're in the highest tax bracket, you're in the 39% tax bracket when you get a deduction, whatever it may be for, you get 39 cents worth of deduction. whereas somebody who is in the 28% tax bracket only gets 28 cents deduction for that particular deduction.

so what we're saying and this is similar to a proposal the president's put forward, is that for folks who are in that very high bracket, the 39% bracket, the value of your deductions will be limited to about 28% which is what the value of deductions is for a middle income taxpayer. >> so ultimately, the budget that you have there and i just read the little chunk of it, you have more revenue increases than cuts, right? >> within, within this particular budget, but if you look, soledad, at the two-year period of reduction we've been engaged in, which is -- includes the $1.5 trillion in cuts, if you look at everything that we've done, we actually have higher ratio of cuts to revenue. and we have a higher ratio of cuts to revenue than the bipartisan simpson-bowles commission report did. so we believe when you take everything in, that we actually have a much more balanced approach as measured by that bipartisan yardstick. >> i want to ask you a question

about this rnc autopsy. did you see the, i guess the press conference where they sort of laid it out? what did you think of that? and what do you think of the rnc autopsy. >> i did. >> what's your assessment? >> we all know that the first step on the road to recovery is to recognize that you've got a problem. but you've got to diagnose the problem correctly. and with the exception of immigration reform, i didn't hear any new ideas coming out of that assessment, and if you look at the budget that the house republicans have put forward, it's simply what mitt romney and paul ryan were talking about in the election. which is the trickle-down notion of economic development, where, providing tax breaks to people at the very top is somehow supposed to lift everybody up. well we know that doesn't work, which is why our budget focuses on accelerating the economy and putting people back to work right now, for example getting rid of the sequester. so i guess the bottom line, soledad, it's good they're

recognizing they've got a problem. but as far as i can tell they misdiagnosed. >> you say with the exception of immigration, and immigration is a big exception. you can see paul rand talking about a pathway to some kind of citizenship. in the tea party. that's i think a little bit of a surprise for some people. do you worry as a democrat that with republicans, i think, correctly analyzing the issue, and the problem they have with the fastest growing demographic in this country that that's going to be a real challenge to democrats? >> look, i'm glad that our republican colleagues are finally on board with immigration reform. we've gone at a very short period of time -- >> right but that's not my question. my question is do you worry that that's going to be a, a part of getting them to capture the hearts and minds of -- >> no, i don't worry -- >> -- idea as really republicans if there were not these issues with immigration. >> look, soledad. we're interested in the result. and the result is good for the country. is to finally get comprehensive immigration reform. what i'm concerned about is that if we're able to get a bill out

of the senate, that we may have trouble getting a vote in the house. but, i ultimately think speaker boehner will be pressured to allow a full vote in the house. and to your question, i fear that you're still going to get an overwhelming number house republicans voting against it. but since we'll have enough democrats in the house combined with some republicans, it. but hopefully we can ultimately get it through. >> chris van hollen, we appreciate your times as always. >> you bet. >> tiger woods making official. a new girlfriend. why this is breaking news, i'm not sure, but we'll tell you about it, straight ahead. eeds... to meeting patient needs... ♪ wireless is limitless. [ female announcer ] from finding the best way... ♪ to finding the best catch...

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and the ncaa tournament kicks off tonight with two of the four playing. liberty flames just the second team to make it with 20 losses. the winner of the matchup gets the right to play louisville in the first round. night cap features st. mary's versus middle tennessee. both games on true tv. and fernando rodney had his lucky charm, a plantain, flown in from the dominican republic. the fruit told him to keep it close and he gets his sixth save of the classic. they will play puerto rico in the finals. check out this video. two stuntmen donning red bull wing suits jumped out of the sky in rio de janeiro and flew through a 26-foot gap in between the corporate towers. crazy performed the stunt in the wee hours of the morning without

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"starting point" this morning, thousands of faithful packing st. peter's square for the inaugural mass. wet, cold, messy in the northeast. slammed by another winter storm. the affects are widespread. new this morning, explosion at an army depot and people are injured. we have the developing details ahead. plus, home made bombs, multiple firearms and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. new details this morning on the plot for mass murder at the university of central florida. is there a retirement crisis brewing? the staggering number of americans who are not comfortable enough with the

money they have for retirement. we have new numbers for you, next. part two of my conversation with facebook exec sheryl sandberg. why she says likeable can work against women in the workplace and how she's hoping change that. tuesday, march 1 9th. "starting point" begins right now. welcome, everybody. our team this morning, father edward beck is back. a cnn contributor. christopher john farley, digital features of "the wall street journal." >> starting point this morning is a new world pope is inaugurated. a new era for the catholic church is under way with quite a scene in vatican city. tens of thousands of worshippers in st. peter's square and many more around the world are praying for and with pope francis during the inaugural mass as he delivered the homily. >> translator: we are all protectors of creation, of the

plan of god written in nature. protectors of one another, of the environment. let us not allow signs of destruction and death accompany this world. >> the crowds for inauguration were smaller than expected and the celebration included some touching moments where the pope kissed the crying baby which stopped crying. and then he went into the crowd and had an opportunity to bless a sick man. you see him there as he kissed him on the forehead. senior correspondent is in rome. following today's papal event. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. the fact is those were kind of visual representations of what the pope's homily would be later on. talked very much on st. joseph's saint day today, talked about st. joseph's need to protect and the example of protecting and said to serve is to protect.

and it's a message meant not only for his fellow churchmen, for the faithful, but also for the assembled dignitaries that were huge crowd of dignitaries, 130 odd delegations, as well as 30 heads of state. there were heads of government. there were crown heads of europe, and it was a huge moment for the church. the kind of thing that we see very seldom and a lot of people wanted to be here for the moment, as well as those heads of states and heads of government. >> jim bittermann, thank you, we appreciate it. john berman with a look at top stories. a developing story in nevada right now. explosion at the hawthorne army depot during a marine corps training exercise. no word yet on the causeful but the traffic accident was somehow involved. there are injuries, four medical helicopters sent to the scene. the spokesman says the explosion

did not happen near ammunition storage units. police at the university of central florida now believe a massacre may have been avoided when a former students apparently took his own life. officers called to a dorm early monday morning after a student reported his roommate pulled a gun on him. the body of 30-year-old james oliver gustavo cumaron was found. they found hundreds of rounds of ammunition, an assault weapon, and some home made bombs. benjamin bishop shared classified information with a young chinese woman. she does got have a security clearance and is not allowed to see the classified nuclear documents. bishop was working for a defense contractor as a civilian employee. the first overseas trip of his second term. will meet with leaders in israel, the west bank and

jordan. israel the first stop on the trip and the first time the president is visiting israel since he took office. one of the key topics of discussion is how to contain iran's growing nuclear program. the trial is over. two teenage boys found guilty, but the victim in the steubenville rape case is still receiving threats. her mother is speaking out. two teenage girls are now in custody for threatening the rape victim with tweets that allegedly threaten to beat or kill her. in an audio statement, her mother called on people to help those in need and stand up for what's right. soledad. >> oh, my goodness. such a terrible story and even after the trial, it continues on. >> the ordeal not over. >> not at all. on this day as a new pope being inaugurated. mark sanford seeking redemption himself. one of 16 republicans competing in today's special gop primary in south carolina's first congressional district. first campaign since 2009 he

kind of vanished from the state, ultimately admitted he was lying about his whereabouts, because he was covering up an affair. and jim acosta in charleston, south carolina, this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. former south carolina governor mark sanford trying to make the transition from the appalachian trail to the political comeback trail. he has to get past a field of 20 different candidates and hardly the biggest name in the race. >> good to see you. >> reporter: in south carolina, mark sanford needs no introduction, but after the former governor of this state famously tried to cover up an affair by falsely telling the public he was hiking the appalachian trail. >> i've been unfaithful to my wife. >> reporter: a reconstructiintr couldn't hurt. he is asking voter forces a

second chance to win his old congressional seat. >> reporter: why should voters give you a second chance? >> what i would say on the larger notion of forgiveness. some people forgave me the next day, some people will never forgive me. >> i'm in this race because i'm worried. >> reporter: sanford has to win his primary against a field of 15. oh, a field of 15 rivals. some are fixtures in state politics. another is the ceo of founder ted turner. hit with negative attacks. >> absolutely amazing about how the game is, it just doesn't make sense. >> reporter: if that's not enough to grab the voters' attention -- >> thank you for your vote, thank you for the support. >> reporter: the winner on the republican side will likely face elizabeth culver bush, the democrat iic favorite bush, and

the sister of late night steven colbert. >> this is not a joke? >> this is not a joke. i don't think anybody thinks this is a joke. >> reporter: and because mark sanford is not expected to pick up 50% of the vote, he will have to compete in a runoff with one of the gop rivals. the former governor of south carolina. not out of the woods yet. >> interesting to see the huge field and hear the pause we saw from mark sanford. that surprised me a bit when he was asked, why should a voter in vest in you again? >> the most obvious question. you would think he would be completely prepared from it. it was such a long pause, what else is he not prepared for? you would think that's the question everybody would be waiting to ask. very odd. >> we teach with god there, is

always a comeback, no one is beyond's god's mercy and forgiveness. the motto from the code of arms that pope francis said. having had mercy, he called him which referred to the calling of matthew, the tax collector, the sinner. this is an extension if i can relate it to the papacy of bringing in anybody. nobody is beyond god's mercy and forgiveness. >> god isn't the only one with a vote on this. the voters in south carolina, and that's the dilemma, they can forgive him, feel charity in his hearts and not want to install him in his own job. >> don't we say but for the grace of god go i. we all have something, it just doesn't get revealed to the public the same way as it was for him. >> the $64,000 question, are you posing, do voters feel that way? that every person needs another opportunity and here is a guy

they liked before, his drama happened, and they feel the charity of their hearts to give him another shake at it. or do people feel resentful for what he put the community through? that's the big question. >> is he an odd guy. walking the trail, nobody knew who he was. all of that in there too. not just the mistake. >> but for the grace of god go i, you are not talking about the appalachian trail. >> maybe. >> you could be. >> stephen colbert is involved in the mixture will make it much more entertaining. >> another great question to see the degree to which his star power will affect her race. interesting. i want to take a look at extreme weather now. believe it or not, spring officially starts tomorrow. you wouldn't know it, hanging out outside. persistent wild winter storms, causing headaches. a tornado touched down 40 miles west of nashville monday afternoon. damaging homes and blocked roads too. blowing snow forced the closure

of many roads and highways. snow, ice, and rain turned roads into a slippery mess overnight. more snow, lots of it, expected in new england today. alison kosik live in concord, new hampshire. they could get a foot and a half. if you pick a place that knows snow, you're kind of standing in it. >> yeah if it had to snow, it has had to be this kind of snow this is not the headache kind of snow. the ski resorts love this kind of snow. look at this. picture perfect. accumulations are expected up to a foot by the time the snow stops falling around midnight. they are predicting an inch of snowfall per hour. plows have been going is back and forth all morning, downtown area being plow vigorously. getting ready for everybody to go to work. i've talked to one shop owner who says, you know what? this is really nothing, the only annoyance is that tomorrow is spring.

though mother nature doesn't follow the calendar, soledad. >> allison cosic. thank you. first he tried to ban supersized sugary drinks. now mayor michael bloomberg is taking on cigarettes. another controversial plan to get those cigarettes out of sight, out of mind. is there a penalty for women who are likeable? sheryl sandberg thinks so and has a plan to even the playing field. the second part of my interview with sheryl sandberg, straight ahead. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities.

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>> we are trying to continue the record reduction in smoking. we brought smoking among teenagers from 18% to 8%. for the last three years it stagnated at that level and smoking is going to kill these kids, leave them with not the great career prospects that you would like, and the adults, very likely they smoke as kids and that will shorten their lives and reduce the quality of their life. smoking is a very big deal. >> jeff cuban, senior legal analyst. he joins thus morning. let's talk legally first. what gives him the legal authority to tell a store owner to hide their cigarettes? >> he deoesn't have it yet. one difference between this and the soda ban is that he tried to do unilaterally. this he is simply proposing to the city council. i don't think there is a legal problem with it, if it passes.

but it hasn't passed yet. >> they have to decide if they support it, and then it would become law that way. >> the new york association of convenience stores, you can guess what they will say in response. they said this. the notion of forcing retailers to hide their tobacco inventory is patently ab such from jim calvin, the president. i'm not a smoker and i actually would be fine if every single person in the world would commit smoking tomorrow, but there is something here that seemed unfair to what he's doing to store owners. the new york association of convenience stores, it will impact the small store owner that is selling something that's legal? >> it's kind of a profound question of what you think government should do. as the mayor said, 7,000,ers die a year. is the job to treat them in the hospitals and pat them on the

head as they die coughing? or can the government take steps to nudge people. just nudge them. not tell people that they can't smoke, but make it slightly more inconvenient and hope that reduces smoking. >> the mayor said there is a record reduction. 18% down to 8%. not done by hiding cigarettes. so something was effective. whatever that was, why not do that ten times and reduce numbers more? >> they have increased taxes on cigarettes a lot. that's a legal product. the taxes on cigarettes are different from the taxes on any other product. there are bans, you know, first thing he did when he came into office, he banned smoking in bars and restaurants, something that was extremely unpopular at the time. >> today, very popular. >> yesterday, mayor bloomberg talked about the comparison of what he is doing now.

>> after new york city banned smoking, which we got a lot of grief about. i got a lot of one-fingered waves when i would march by bars on st. patrick's day, for example. today, march by a bar on st. patrick's day, and everybody seems to love you. and because of what new york did, i think it's fair to say, most cities in america, all of western europe, virtually all of latin america, have gone smoke free. >> he does have a point there. >> i'm probably the wrong person to talk to this about. my mother died of lung cancer after 50 years of smoking. i am probably not objective. are you making money on something that kills people, putting out for teenagers, and it could possibly kill them, as it did my mother. i'm for what he is doing. i have no problem with hiding -- he is not saying you can't sell it every adult knows cigarettes are for sale. but you don't have to put it out for everybody. >> you said something very important there. teenagers could act on the

impulse to buy. a lot of what we do in stores is a reaction to an impulse we get. that is the idea behind the 20-ounce soda. if we make it harder to buy a cigarette, maybe they won't buy a cigarette. again, not banning it, just making slightly more difficult. >> and it changes after a while it becomes part of the norm. i remember when i was a music critic, going into clubs, coming out cigarette smoke. remember those days? who would ever want to go back to those days when cigarettes were allowed in nightclubs. maybe this will be the same way. >> i'm not sure that's a perfect analogy. people who were smoking were disturbing the air, space, the rights of other people this is different. i kantar particulate why. i'm a big supporter of the photo ban. i'm like, yep. that also is not good for you. >> i think we need to explore your psyche about this. i don't know.

>> i told you, i don't understand it. i don't know. this one -- i'm not a huge libertarian. >> we'll see what happens. there is a lot of opposition, it has to get through the city council. not the greatest deliberative body. >> thank you as always. after years of silence, hillary clinton speaks out about gay marriage and fuels more about a 2016 presidential run. that is trending and up next. j. and i knew he'd feel better if he lost a little weight. so i switched to purina cat chow healthy weight formula. i just fed the recommended amount... and they both loved the taste. after a few months max's "special powers" returned... and i got my hero back. purina cat chow healthy weight.

welcome back, everybody. a look at what's trending online. lil wayne back home. he had a seizure last week and

recovering at cedars sni sinai. there were reports that he was on his death bed that lit up social media, but he tweeted he was okay. hillary clinton, publicly endorsed same-sex marriage. >> lgbt americans are our colleagues, teachers, soldiers, our friends. our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the right of citizenship. that includes marriage. >> former presidential candidate and maybe too be presidential candidate spoke directly to the camera. a six-minute long piece. she supports it personally as a matter of policy and of law. i don't think it's a big surprise. >> quite a change when we last heard her speak publicly about

it when she ran for president in 2007-2008, when she had a virtually identical position as president, which was she favored civil unions. now she also mirrors the president's view. >> lil wayne. a lot of fake tweets about what was happening with him. >> that's interesting about these kinds of things. social media, stories made up. every other week, a story that lil wayne or somebody else is on the death bed or dying. real information came out. he apparently is out of the hospital. we'll have to see what is going on there. >> ahead this morning, part two of my conversation with facebook coo sheryl sandberg, why she admits to crying at work and what women need to do when they are going to negotiate to get paid more. that's ahead. [ male announcer ] this is bob,

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those killed. 60-year-old steven davis died in the crash. he led the sooners to two national championships in the 1970s. also wesley caves of tulsa was killed. they doan know what caused the jet to go down. huge wildfire in pigeon forge, tennessee, mostly out, thanks to heavy rains. the destruction is already done and fairly extensive. more than 60 buildings damaged or destroyed. many just charred shells. 200,000 acres of the mountain resort community was burned. a peb memorial for jeffrey bush, he vanished into a giant sinkhole under his bedroom. the home torn down, the home filled, bush's body never recovered. and the prospect of tourism and marijuana, with dinner cruises, jazz festivals, and

clubs. it's not an easy way to make a living as far as the federal government is concerned. marijuana is still an i will he' illegal drug. seattle's tourism board thinks it would be a good fit for the city. >> we're cautious and concerned about what the federal approach will be, but without a doubt it plays a role and has a part in the future of tourism. >> the state's liquor control board is drawing up plans for growing, processing, and selling marijuana and marijuana based products that could take place next year. coffee and marijuana. >> so interesting. he's from visit seattle, right? the tourism board. have to wonder if doing that, marketing that, drives away some people too. i would certainly not bring my children to seattle on that marketing dinner campaign. >> you probably wouldn't want to go on the pot dinner cruise. >> are there implications it will bleed into other parts of that. >> what's interesting, the

government is so intertwined. >> facebook coo sheryl sandberg says women need to be called to action. a new book called "lean in." it takes a look at what is holding women back from leadership roles in the workplace. i sat down with sheryl and we talked about obstacles women face whe getting ahead, including likability. >> until literally a few years ago, i never said the word woman in the workforce, right? >> now with her new book, "lean in," sheryl sandberg is not only talking and writing about women in the workforce, you could say she's preaching about it, and the barriers that women face. >> women are held back by lots of things, by institutional barriers, lack of flexibility, terrible public policy. our country trails most others, sexism, discrimination. but we're also held back by things that exist within us. you know, we are taught as children that girls behave one

way, and boys behave another. >> you talk a little bit about -- you use a word relentlessly pleasant. should be relentlessly pleasant or delicately honest is that another way of saying worry about your likability without saying likability? >> you know, i want the likability penalty to go away for women. the way it goes away, if you get more female leaders, we assume men will lead and women will nurture, because 86% of leaders are men and women are nurturing. if we can change those numbers, we change it i don't want to tell people to be relentlessly pleasant and you don't need to use we in negotiation instead of i. >> that's exactly what you say. >> in the book i say we have to work together to change this. negotiating for a raise today? use we, not i. it will work. it's practical. not advice i want to perpetuate in the workforce which is why i read the book.

>> right. realistically, don't you have to have -- i mean, you talk about it in the book, you give tips on how to have an engaging personality to realistically be successful. i don't know that people give men tips on an engaging personality. >> the cards are stacked against women and i'm sure about that in the book. what "lean in" is trying to do is open people's eyes to the way cards are stacked. if we stop calling little girls bossy. when we say bossy, my daughter has executive leadership skills, we'll stop telling women in the workforce that they are too aggressive. when they do things that men do all the time. it's not that every behavior a woman does is fine. and not telling women to be like men. i'm telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home, without that gender bias. >> sandberg says one of the reasons she wrote the book is to bring gender bias out of shadows. >> men get to be successful and

likeable. women have to pick. we can change that if we change the numbers. we're holding people to stereotypes. if more women start leading, that will become part of our understanding of women. i said publicly, i cry at work. it's not a best practice. i'm not suggesting if you want to get promoted today, go cry to your boss. but it's happened to me, and i admit it publicly and i don't want women to spend two weeks worrying about it like i did. >> you're not penalized because you're sheryl sandberg and crying on the shoulders of your boss who you are close to who said let me give you a hug. >> don't you think the women who came before me could never have said that. think about the way the women dressed in the 1970s in corporate america. >> a fluffy bow. and look at how you and i are wearing. >> are you allowed to be a woman in the workforce because are you not first. >> we asked about another famous

ceo. marissa meyers and her decision to end telecommuting, something many women to do to balance women and child care. is she helping or hurting the revolution? >> i don't know exactly what happened yahoo!. i think she's proving the point, too many too few female leaders, extrapolate from a female leader to all men ceos. not possible. men are allowed to be individuals. women need that freedom to be individuals as well. >> that looks amazing. >> this week, sanberg celebrates her five-year anniversary with facebook with the stock from last year's infamous ipo not reaching the original price, she says there is much work to do at the company. she won't rule out there may be a time when she leans back. what does your future look like? you dodge this question every time. have you been asked so many times and every time you dodge. what do you think down the road?

when? when your children are preteen? what do you want to do? >> i really love my job. we're in the facebook office. look at this place? >> five years down the road, what will you be doing? >> my naive year five-year anni facebook is next week. >> ten years down the road? >> we'll see. i really love my job and really love being a parent. i love being a parent. i'm not running for office. i don't know how many times to say that, but, no, look, i love my job. i would like to always have a following. i would like to always make sure i'm doing something i believe in. i really believe in facebook, i will work there if i believe in it, work here, here in the office, if i believe in it. i really believe in lean in. i'm passionate about doing this and i'm a really passionate mother. i love being with my kids. i don't do it all perfectly as a mother. we never know completely what we're doing.

i feel guilty sometimes, but i love my time with my children. >> the ultimate debate. she hopes this book will start a conversation and help the revolution. certainly started a conversation. >> mission accomplished if that's what she was after. >> number one on amazon and because people are really trying to figure it out. really struggling to figure out, how do you have success in the workplace and make sure your family is not falling apart. >> very interesting. i hear people around my 7-year-old daughter say all the time. she's bossy. i never heard my 10-year-old son be described as bossy. because bossy is good among his peers. >> she'll say let's call that great leadership skills. a great ceo executive skill. the problem when she's 28, 29 or 30, up for a promotion, yeah, you're bossy, and you won't get the promotion. that's the rub. i'm not bossy. i look at you, see what you are thinking. i'm a little bit bossy.

>> i would tell each kid that you are annoying. tell them they are being bossy in the preschool classroom, pain in the neck. >> i will give her a corner office in my house, so she realizes later on it will pay off. >> you never had nuns, did you? >> oh. >> speaking of bossy. >> father, carry on. >> lay women and nuns do a lot of leadership in the church, they run parishes. not in leadership positions we see, but there is a lot of strength of women in the church. women's ordination is a big issue. let's not underestimate the power. >> they are already in leadership position but to get to the ultimate leadership position -- >> maybe that's part of the answer too. what is the ultimate goal? the top leadership position is not leaning into something you don't particularly want, not necessarily a victory. >> maybe the pope will make

appointments that will symbolically speak to that. >> i love the way we circle around to the big story of the morning. well done, father. well done. up next, talk about the ten-year anniversary of invasion of iraq. we'll talk to dara martinez who served in the army in the war. severely injured by a road side bomb. and watch "the lead" hosted by jake tapper at 4:00 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn.

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today marks ten years since the u.s. invasion of iraq which led to the fall of sadam hussein's regime. more than a year since the last company of troops left that company. 32,000 servicemen and women suffered injuries in the war. our guest left iraq severely injured, when the humvee he was riding in hit a road side bomb. he was a dancing with the stars champion and author, and a book called "full of heart." thank you for talking with us. let's go back to 2002.

enlisted out of high school, deployed to iraq in the first wave. what was it like when it was all just beginning? >> well, i was 19 years old when i deployed. and to me, the war was a possibility, but it wasn't reality. getting iraq at 19 years old, i remember asking a lot of superiors, sergeant in charge of me, what exactly are we doing here? the message wasn't necessarily clear to me. granted, i was 19. but the message was not clear when we saw the speech by the president back then, president bush, we were going in for weapons of mass destruction, okay, that's our mission, our goal. we're here ultimately to try to protect this country from the cris terrorists that attacked us on 9/11 and try to find the answers to, you know, all the questions that every single american had ever since 9/11 happened. >> in your memoir, you talk

about april 5th as your alive day. that is surprising, because in a lot of people's minds, it would be the day you were so badly injured, the end of something, a relaunch of something. explain that to me. >> well, you know, one of the things where it comes down in life. all of gus through things, but it comes down to you making a choice. dependent on what choices you make, you want to go in a positive way or negative way, it can turn out to be something great or something horrible. for me, whoever put the roadside bomb there that allowed me to be injured, i in a lot of ways applaud that individual, it gave me the challenge to find out a lot about myself. ultimate ultimately, i tried to survive. and i tried to not allow that bomb to affect me the rest of my

life. it would control my life for a moment, but not forever. and it's easy for me to look at that day as it's -- it's my alive day, my rebirth. because essentially launched me to doing things i'm doing today with my life. >> do you look back often or occasionally or rarely or never, and say was it -- considering the injuries you suffered, is it a constant thought in your head? >> not necessarily because of me. i don't find myself looking at my injuries, or going through surgery from time to time as a burn survivor and asking that question. i mainly asked that question probably no different than any other american when you hear a story of one more soldier, sailor, marine, airman, coast guardsman, whatever branch of the service was killed. one more service member was injured, one more family is getting a call right now. one more service member not

necessarily getting the benefit or treatment they deserve when they come back home and fighting that new battle. one more service member returned, and survived five deployments overseas, but lost the battle back home because it was mentally and emotional too much to deal with. that's when i ask the question. i have to tell you, soledad, when i was 19 years old, raised my right hand to join the united states army, my belief was support whatever the commander in chief says and separate your political views from the whole thing. however, as i've gotten older, i've kind of said to myself, it was worth it, but not for the same reasons that our political leaders and our government necessarily said that was going to be the reasons why we invaded iraq. our reasons as service members is we love to join the military and a lot of us joined the

military, either during 9/11 or right after 9/11, because we wanted to help. we wanted to help people. wanted to be part of freedom, be part of what we enjoy every single day in this country. and we are overseas and it's more about trying to help the iraqi people. what really helped us is more about we were there for the iraqi people, not necessarily because of weapons of mass destruction so to speak. >> you see the state of iraq now, bombs going off in baghdad, how does it make you feel? what did you do to contribute to help stabilize the country there? stabilize the country democracy? >> well, i remember when it was a big thing when women were going to be able to vote in iraq and feeling proud about that moment. you were talking about the coo facebook and women in power and

that's something that's coming along, but it's something that's really appreciated here in this country that women have that ability, have that -- that freedom that are treated equally at times. when i saw that on television and a lot of friends talking to each other about that moment, and we thought to ourselves, that's why we did it. we helped the iraqi people get a taste of what we enjoy in this country. freedom and took someone out of power, sadam hussein, osama bin laden, out of power, that was terrorizing his own people for so many years and making them believe such horrible things. and so for the -- i don't know the fraction of iraqis that appreciate the fact that i was there to help the country. a lot of my friends said they experienced a lot of iraqi

civilians are appreciative of what we're doing there to try to help them ultimately, and that's why it was worth it for me. >> nice to talk to you. i could listen to you literally for hours talking about your experiences. appreciate it. >> thanks, have a great day. >> you too. ahead this morning, a retirement crisis, the staggering number of workers who aren't confident they have enough money for a comfortable retirement. plus, a recall on yoga pants? some of them are see through. oops. that's ahead. i'm a conservative investor.

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brand new housing data giving stocks a lift. the overall construction number, up less than 1%, including apartments. build permits rose 1.6%. gains on wall street are limited due to concerns over cyprus, and this is europe's fourth financial bailout. a retirement crisis. a new study says 28% of americans are not confident they have enough money to retire. in 2007, 10% of americans feel that way. many americans say they have less than $20,000 saved for retirement. >> that number is shocking. >> yeah. >> 12% of people have at least quarter million saved there is a chunk of people who are paranoid or rich, who can put enough money away, socking the money away. but most people can't meet the day-to-day needs to do that. a story about corporate

transparency. >> oh! >> yoga pants being recalled for being too see throw. lululemon has recalled them. using the signature fabric luon, a combination of nylon and lycra. if you bought a pair, get a refund. in the meantime, there will be a pants shortage, and the stock is down on this. a lot of people in yoga class tapping their friend on the shoulder saying you have the bad pants. corporate transparency. >> yoga just got a lot more interesting to me. >> i don't know is going to sign up for yoga. can't touch my toes, but maybe go to yoga. >> we have to take a short break. back right after this. sure does! ♪ wow. [ buzz ] delicious, right? yeah.

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